The middle ages being incredibly gross is a misunderstanding that goes back to the nineteenth century. In that era cities were overcrowded and very filthy and they concluded that in the ‘dark ages’ this would have been much worse.
It gets perpetuated by Hollywood always having someone have excrement out of a window or peeing in the street. Yet those were collected for fertilizer and as washing purposes (urine contains ammonia which is handy for degreasing wool).
Another common myth that keeps getting related is that people drank beer as the water was filthy. Water is the main ingredient in beer and people did know boiling water purified it.
Would it smell like roses? No not at all, nor does it in modern cities. There were stupid and filthy people, just like today, but usually people did make an effort of keeping clean.
But if you want really filthy cities, you have to go to the nineteenth century, where human waste was combined with a lovely dose of unbridled industrial pollution.
Is it shit? It’s shit, isn’t it? It’s like I’m literally smelling it as I type this.
on the other side of the wall:
“So my job is to just put my butt against this hole and eat cabbage and beans all day? And you’re going to pay me for this?”
> Takes a whiff
> Catches þe plague
Hell yeah, þorn spotted.
Juſt inſtalled a new keyboard, decided to upgrade Engliſh along wiþ it
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…'bout þree þirty-five per hour back when i was in high ſchool…
Gotta watch out for the humors, man
So authentic!
It’s definitely someone bending over with their butt to the hole
Honestly this would be the most Chaucer-like thing to do, so I can’t fault them.
That’s 100% someone’s fetich. Do we even know if it’s in some medieval castle, or is it hanging in a truck stop bathroom somewhere?
Truck stop bathroom would have a pee pee sticking out the hole.
So technically is this is a medieval glory hole?
Et le fétiche a toujours triomphé d’eux
Curſed glory hole
The aroma has a complex bouquet of black currant, horse manure, good dirt, and unwashed ass. Truly this is a ripe vintage worthy of the most sophisticated palettes. 93/100.
This hole is connected to the exhaust of the toilet on the other side of the wall.
But it needs some horseshit and b.o. mixed in as well.
Palates? Palette is a flat surface used by painters to mix paint on.
Manure, the unwashed masses, and blood.
So, Detroit?
“How did you create the authentic medieval smell?”
“We just put our netadmin’s desk behind there.”
Glade Hawaiian Breeze spray can: psst
What kind of funhole is this??
What a load of horse shit
Akshully, most medieval towns wouldn’t see all that many horses. They had a lot of humans though, and human shit smells SO much worse.
If we’re ranking shit by smell, then carnivores are the absolute worst, omnivores are a close second, and herbivores are a distant third. Everything excreted by a big cat (Lions, Tigers, etc.) is so so smelly, and it seeps into everything. You can smell the big cat zookeepers as soon as they walked into the room.
Omnivores excrete stuff that is almost as smelly as those cats, but at least it’s familiar. Maybe that makes it worse. Admit it, your own farts are never as offensive as someone else’s. Raccoon poop, especially the dried out and dusty kind will straight up kill you though, so watch out for that. Primate fluids can pretty risky too because of their similarity to us.
Herbivore shit is fucking perfume compared to the others. Horse shit doesn’t actually smell that bad at all unless there is something wrong. The ammonia from their piss is something fierce and awful though. Mucking horse stalls is like scooping a litter box for a cat the size of a horse, but the actual shit is the most pleasant aspect. Elephant shit is the most pleasant shit I’ve ever had the pleasure of shoveling. It’s like wet dead grass with a hint of musk.
This one knows their shit.
Yup, in most parts of Europe, if you had a horse, you were pretty well off. Horses require a lot of specialized care and gear, most of which was expensive.
🔹Use provided bucket to catch vomit
I would imagine like a farm?
